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Best known for his alternative comics, Chester Brown (b. 1960) is one of the most acclaimed and influential cartoonists of the last half century. This first biography provides a critical account of Brown's life and career, highlighting his role in the evolving comics landscape and tracing his journey from self-publishing minicomics on the streets of Toronto to creating award-winning graphic novels.
Characterized by often minimalist art and unconventional themes, comics such as Yummy Fur, Ed the Happy Clown, I Never Liked You, Louis Riel, and Paying for It have consistently pushed boundaries and confronted taboos. Chester Brown offers unique insight into Brown's creative process as well the scope of his work and its larger cultural contexts. Organized chronologically, the book provides a full account of the artist's career, beginning with his failed attempts to break into superhero comics and ending with discussions of his most recent work, in which he blends autobiography with political views on sex work and religion.
The book also examines Brown's extensive authorial revisions and considers how he has deployed both these and an increasingly voluminous amount of paratextual material in the service of creating a highly distinctive authorial persona that in turn cannot help but influence how we encounter and read his work. Chester Brown pulls back the curtain on this pioneering artist and emphasizes the inseparability of Brown's art and life, including the myriad ways they have informed each other across the last four decades of comics history.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: From off the Streets of Toronto Comes: Yummy Fur the Minicomic
Chapter 2: Sacred Profanities: Ed the Happy Clown and the Gospel Adaptations
Chapter 3: Autobiographical Disclosures: Short Stories, The Playboy, and I Never Liked You
Chapter 4: Transitions: From Underwater to Louis Riel and the Graphic Novel
Chapter 5: Prostitution, Politics, and the Bible: Paying for It and Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus
Chapter 6: Retconning Chester Brown: Revisions, Notes, and Authorial Voice
Conclusion: Against the Grain
Bibliography
Index